x, 216 pages 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-211)

Literacy without education : the need for popular and common-language materials -- Language differences and a way to classify Bible translations -- Additional dimensions : religious language, translation distortion, and situational bilingualism -- Types of translation for different linguistic situations -- Kind of language suitable for a common-language translation -- The translation process -- Some examples of common-language translations -- Undertaking a popular or common-language translation : preliminary studies of the situation -- Procedures for developing a common-language translation -- Thematic problems : difficulty of concepts -- Lexical problems : handling of vocabulary -- Figurative language -- Naturalness in structure -- Clarity in grammatical structure -- Combining clauses into sentences -- Grammatical relationships beyond the sentence -- Tests for measuring readability

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